Elliot Kupferberg

Elliot Kupferberg (1939-) was an American psychotherapist.

Biography
Elliot Kupferberg was born in 1939 to a Jewish-American family; his mother's uncle used to work as a wheelman for Murder, Inc. mobster Louis Buchalter. Kupferberg later became a psychology teacher and a psychotherapist, with Dr. Jennifer Melfi being one of his students. He would become her psychotherapist even after she became a psychologist, and he recommended that he refer her patient, DiMeo crime family boss Tony Soprano, to a different doctor. Kupferberg had an interest in the Mafia, and he later breached Melfi's doctor-patient confidentiality during a toast, informing several other doctors that Soprano was her patient; this decision led to Melfi dropping Soprano as a patient in 2007.